Resize images with AI upscaling / preserving resolution

Report · Dec 14, 2023

I can't believe that there are AI image and content generation tools in photoshop, but scaling a layer down, then scaling it back up at some later time preserves the 'lower' resolution of the scaled down object and you just end up scaling up a blurry mess.

I'm aware that making that image a smart object first is the right workflow and preserves all of the edits (and more, and it's awesome) but sometimes I do one off or non-production play files and I just work with flat layers. I think preserving the original image size (at least) would be great, if not, scaling up via simple AI pixel doubling tools would be even better so that if you're using a small image and want to pull out the resolution, you don't have to use other tools.

Thanks!

Report · Dec 15, 2023

Protecting Photoshop users from the consequences of their own actions would have to come at a price, I guess – in this case at least filesize (which could in turn affect performance and opening- and saving-times).

What about the use of painterly tools/touch-up tools?

If a Layer is stored at two sizes should the full res-version just be dropped once someone starts painting on the downsampled Layer or should the operations be performed on both sizes? (Again performance could be an issue.)

What about non-proportinal transformations, skewing, warping, …? Would you expect Layers thus transformed to also maintain a hidden Smart Object-feature?